Holder.



No. 665,739. Patented Jan 8, 19m.

' s. HECKER.

HOLDER.

(Application filed M51228, 1900.) (No Model.)

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GUIDO I-IEGKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ARTHUR SOHWARZEN- BAGH, OF SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,739, dated January 8, 1901.

Application filed March 28, 1900. Serial No. 10,541. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: Be it. known that I, GUIDo HEoKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to improvements in holding devices for wax, paraffin, stearin,

graphite, lead, lubricants, or other compositions used in laundries and in bicycle or machine shops for the application of polishing material to hot flat-irons or ironing-rollers or lubricants or the like to leather and woods or fabrics; and the object is to provide a holder of simple construction and comparatively cheap to manufacture by means of which the material held therein maybe conveniently and rapidly applied.

I will describe a holder embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification,

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a holder embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a lou- 0 gitudinal section thereof.

The holder comprises a hollow body portion l of any suitable material and of any desired shape-that is, it may be cylindrical or angular. At one end the body portion is provided with a closure 2, having an opening 3 for the passage of the stem at of a plunger 5 for operating in the body portion. Attached to the opposite end of the body portion is a cap 6, consisting of material through which wax or 40 other material in the device when melted may readily pass. I prefer to employ for this cap a fabric, as it will readily permit the melted material to pass through its meshes and will yield to uneven surfaces over which the device may pass.

In operation, assuming that it is desired to apply wax to a hot iron, the wax or the like a: placed in the holder is pushed forward by means of the plunger 5 against the cap 6. Then as the outer surface of the cap 6 is passed over the iron the wax will be melted and pass through the meshes of the cap, so that it may be spread on the iron.

When using the device, the body portion should be held in such a manner that one finger of a persons hand may be engaged with the end of the stem 4 so as to press the plunger forward.

In order to smoothly fix the fabric cap to the holder and so that a label may be engaged around its edge without wrinkling, I have cut the cap in such form as to provide fingers designed to be glued to the outer surface of the holder, and to further secure it the label is engaged over the fingers, as plainly shown in the drawings. It is obvious that the cap need not at any time be removed for adjustment, as the wax moves or retains its engagement with the cap as the wax melts away.

It is obvious that a holder embodying my invention is always ready for use, never changes its shape, prevents Waste of material when heat is applied, and keeps the contents of the holder clean.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pateut- A holder for wax or the like, comprising a hollow body portion having a closure at one end, provided with a central opening, a plun- 8o ger movable in the body portion, a stem extended from the plunger and through said opening, and an open-mesh cover for one end of the body, the said cover having its edge fixed to the outer surface of the body and cov- 8 5 ered by a label, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

QUIDO HECKER.

Witnesses:

J NO. M. BITTER, C. R. FERGUSON. 

